UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s School of Visual Arts will conclude its annual Anderson Lecture Series with a presentation by multidisciplinary artist Kang Seung Lee on Tuesday, April 14, at 11:30 a.m. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Foster Auditorium located in the Paterno Library at Penn State University Park.
The lecture series is supported by the John Muller Anderson endowment, which was named in honor of the professor emeritus who was an Evan Pugh Research Professor of Philosophy and the first director of Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who was born in South Korea and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Using a multidisciplinary approach that intertwines drawing, text, embroidery, video installation and movement, his work frequently engages the legacy of transnational queer histories, particularly as they intersect with art history.
“I often research and reposition personal and public queer archives and collections, connecting distinct geographies and experiences to forge new sites of knowledge,” Lee said in an artist’s statement.
His work has been included in international exhibitions such as the 60th Venice Biennale (2024); Made in LA at Hammer Museum (2023); New Museum Triennial (2021); and Gwangju Biennale (2021). He also participated in documenta fifteen (2022), invited by Jatiwangi Art Factory.
Lee's work is in the permanent collections of Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; Getty Research Institute; Hammer Museum; Kadist Foundation, Paris/San Francisco; Leeum Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; MASP, São Paulo, Brazil; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; RISD Museum; and Sunpride Foundation among others.